The Secret Life of Groceries

Good information, but the author is pretty annoying. Comes across at times as preachy, or holier-than-thou, and other times spends a lot of time praising the attributes of the individual people he interviewed for this book. I get that he formed opinions of them and wanted to highlight the things he felt deserved highlighting, but after the fifth person or so being praised as being an absolute saint of a human being without really contributing to why we're reading about them in the first place, I was pretty tired of it.

Also, I don't know if it was just his delivery in the narration (narrated by the author) but every time he mentioned a highly specific grocery item (all the time) it just had a sense of arrogant to it. Like, “ah yes, consumers, they want their chocolate covered almonds and their chipotle avocado all dressed chips, how dare they”.

I can't really recommend this because the writing bothered me so much, but hey, the actual facts on the ground were pretty interesting.